W'e're off to see the President

At least Luke thinks and hopes so. We are off on our 2nd every family vacation. 2 days in D.C. and then on to N.J. for a wedding. I'll post pictures if we have any extra time while we're gone :)

Oh and I will post dress pictures when we get back :)

Don't miss us too much! We'll be back on the 9th.

arggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This week life has been crazy isane busy and stressful. I think I shall scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Teaser Camp Pictures

o.k. well... it is taking forever to sort through, resize and upload camp pictures. So, here are a couple teaser pictures. I will post more tomorrow :)

Raising the Flag

Goofy campers


And let us run with patience the race that is set before us...


Choir time (do, do, do, do, re, me)

Quote of the Day (Cole) and a couple camp pictures :)

To observe nature closely is to follow the finger of God.

~Thomas Cole

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Prayers please

Hi everyone,

I'm just posting quick to ask for prayer. I woke up yesterday and my eyes hurt and where swollen or something. I light hurt them, and for a while anyway I had to fight to keep my eyes open. They got better as the day when on but where red and hurt again this morning. They are definitely better but I would still appreciate prayers. I'm not sure what caused it in the first place. I'm believing that it is not allergies or anything like that.

Thanks!

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I remember when...

Gas went up 25 cents today! To $3.25. 25 cents a gallon!!! That adds up terribly quickly. What happened to the good ol' days when gas was .79 a gallon.....

The Rapid Decline of Social Graces

I don't know it is the summer weather or what but recently I have been noticing a definite lack of social graces. "Please" and "Thank You" are no longer staples, but have become wayside words. People want what they want and they want it now. No waiting patiently, no please and thank you, no nothing, just disrespect. People pull up to drive thru and holler hello before you even have a chance to reach for the talk button... It's very disconcerting. What happened to the the common courtesy people use to show to one another? What happened to tipping your hat at a lady when she walked by (I know guys don't wear hats as much....) What happened to saying please and thank you because you truly meant it? What happened to just plain being politeness? I don't know for sure what it's been replaced by. But personally, I don't like it, let's go back to the old way, the polite way. The way that makes other people feel appreciated and respected.

Quote of the Day (Winston Churchill)

In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.
~ Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day (Jane Austen)

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years meet with somebody more generally unexceptionable than anyone you have yet known, who will love you as warmly as possible, and who will so completely attach you that you will feel you never really loved before.
~ Jane Austen in a letter to her niece

O.k. so this isn't exactly a something to think about quote, it just struck my fancy. Jane Austen, the woman who wrote so much about love is giving her niece advice about it :)

Quote of the Day (C.S. Lewis)

These quotes have to come with an explanation :) About a year ago Dad put in the movie Shadowlands.It is an excellent movie about the life of C.S. Lewis. Anyway, I didn't watch all of it, I came in about half-way through. But right away the following lines caught me ear and had me thinking for a few hours.

We read to know we are not alone. Do you believe that?
~C.S. Lewis

Experience is a brutal teacher, but we learn.
~C.S. Lewis

Why do we love if losing hurts so much?
~C.S. Lewis